Alaa Yousry is an Egyptian electroacoustic sound artist and neuroscientist performing under the alias Cerpintxt. Her work is concerned with generating an invented language of a particular strain of softness through phonetic entropy and augmented instrumentation. Working with cut-ups and dialectics to decimate language and linear constructs of temporality in an entropic process of lingual erosion into protoconversation. The textural counterparts of her sound include wind instruments, broken turntablism, augmented cello, reel-to-reels, tape recorders, granular and modular synthesis. Her recent album Refugees of the Symbolic Network is an archaeoacoustic study on the convolution reverb of the King's Chamber of the Giza Pyramid, deconstructing the work of poets Izz al-Din Manasirah & Sargon Boulus.

Cerpintxt has performed at the ICA, Cafe Oto, Electric Brixton, IKLECTIK, Radiophrenia, Göteborg Art Sounds, Field Maneuvers, Experiment Intrinsic, Another Sky, Electrowerkz and more. She's a resident artist at Radio Alhara, Mutant Radio, and Radio Syg.ma. She curates the London-based event ‘Boundary Condition’ investigating parallels between darkjazz, hauntology, and music concrete as nostalgia-centric sonic practices.